Question a friend, perhaps he did not do it; but if he did anything so that he may do it no more.A hasty quarrel kindles fire,and urgent strife sheds blood.If you blow on a spark, it will glow;if you spit on it, it will be put out; and both come out of your mouth

What causes someone to get suspended? Teaching heretical things? Messing up the DL? How big of a deal is that? If you get suspended, is it just temporary or is it another way of saying your fired?

There are many reasons. Suspension is serious business. Serious allegations of criminal or moral misconduct probably top the list. Heresy is rare. Being a lousy priest probably gets you a lecture, corrective efforts and possible demotion to.a smaller parish or part time status. A good bishop will work with his priests. Suspension can be for a fixed period of time or permanent. Serious offenses should be handled by the particular diocesan judicial panel per the diocesan or jurisdictional by laws.

The ultimate sanction while remaining in the Church is for a priest to be restored to lay status. (aka "defrocking" ) Permanent suspension is something you'd have to ask your bishop about. Indefinite suspension would imply the potential for restoration to active ministry. Of course some offences might require excommunication (espousing and acting upon heresy comes to.mind.)

UPDATE: 5/24/14 Denzil Roland is no longer an active priest and the Mission has been closed.

Man, that blog is a sight for sore eyes.

"The aberration is to be clean shaven, as the Pagans."

That must be why barber poles resemble the Tower of Babel:

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Quote from: Fr. Thomas Hopko, dystopian parable of the prodigal son

...you can imagine so-called healing services of the pigpen. The books that could be written, you know: Life in the Pigpen. How to Cope in the Pigpen. Being Happy in the Pigpen. Surviving in the Pigpen. And then there could be counselling, for people who feel unhappy in the pigpen, to try to get them to come to terms with the pigpen, and to accept the pigpen.